I was driving along in the car recently when my daughter, Ruby*, asked if she could go to the doctor's and get a penis. She's eight. My breath caught in my throat, and without taking my eyes off the road, I said I'd have to Google it when I got home.

How would I respond? I sure as hell wouldn't start attention-wh0ring on the internet about it.

/"Well honey, we can't do anything about it now. How about playing softball this spring? "//"Well honey, we could look at Corvettes, really big watches, and .44 magnum handguns. That is usually pretty close."

no, no, NO! not this thread again! stop greenlighting this crap, even if it's for real, no one cares, your an idiot, you've proven anything can procreate, and you created a farked-up kid. your whole family should die in a fire./on earth today, they still don't know what happened to that airliner.

While it's expected that so many penis jokes have taken over this thread, this is a real thing. I've known people who go through it, and it can be rough. From the article I think the 8 year old's school principal deserves an award for being proactive and teaching the mother about gender identity issues instead of judging the child or the parent in this case.

Assuming this whole article wasn't just a well written keyword article farming for a specific demographic or hoping to go viral on facebook.

Umm, she's 8. Kid's understanding of race, gender and the rest are still developing- 7 to 8 year olds are still working on understanding that these things are permanent.[1] How about letting her dress the way she wants and skateboard with the boys if it makes her happy and not stressing about it too much.

If she's still feeling like that at 12-14, then you might need some more help

[1] My then 7-year old once happily told me he didn't have to worry about the n-word because he wasn't black. When I tried to explain that yes, he was half black he told me he was brown and that I was black since I was wearing black clothes.

TheOther:rubi_con_man: AverageAmericanGuy: "If you keep yourself clean and healthy, you can have all the penises you want when you get bigger."

One and done

well.. .clean, healthy, pretty, nice and complaint.

...'compliant'?

Yeah yeah yeah, see, boys do the chasing, and girls do the selecting. So the girl has to be "compliant" when the boy asks her to take it off.

/ Or just tap any male in the world on the shoulder, say, "Hi, wanna fark?" and enjoy and 89% success rate.// Come to think of it, clean, pretty, healthy and nice aren't all that necessary for girl to make that strategy work, either.

Yeah, but are you gonna take care of it? Those things require daily excercise, and usually you're on your own with that. And sometimes it just wakes up in the middle of the night and just stares at you, very creepy, you don't want that.

E5bie:TheOther: rubi_con_man: AverageAmericanGuy: "If you keep yourself clean and healthy, you can have all the penises you want when you get bigger."

One and done

well.. .clean, healthy, pretty, nice and complaint.

...'compliant'?

Yeah yeah yeah, see, boys do the chasing, and girls do the selecting. So the girl has to be "compliant" when the boy asks her to take it off.

/ Or just tap any male in the world on the shoulder, say, "Hi, wanna fark?" and enjoy and 89% success rate.// Come to think of it, clean, pretty, healthy and nice aren't all that necessary for girl to make that strategy work, either.

Incidentally, this is also why gay men are so much more threatening than lesbians. Gay guys are farking 24/7, committing "crimes against nature" by hooking up with other horny dogs instead of the Frigid Princesses that God intended for all men, to teach them self-mortification. Lesbians are just cute because all they do is sit around together and eat ice cream on a Saturday night, as sexual purity is, after all, the natural state of all women.